Re: [FFADO-user] Audiofire Pre8

[Jonathan W. <jw...@ju...>]

Hi

Apologies for the delays on following up this post.  I was travelling, among
other things.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:58:13PM -0600, CrowLine_Studio wrote:
> I can test on my laptop which dual-boots linux mint 16 (64-bit) and win7.
> I didn't have immediate success under linux mint previously, but did not
> troubleshoot much.  My laptop interface is an expresscard which I believe
> has a JMicron chipset which could be trouble?

JMicron has mixed success according to our host controller page at

  http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/HostControllers

Could you post the output of the "ffado-diag" command when run on your arch
system?  This will tell us exactly which chipset/version you have and allow
us to determine whether the card might be a problem.

> I previously had success recording a brief test to audacity in win7 using
> the same firewire cable and the expresscard.

Ok.  If this was not too long ago then we can probably assume that the
cable, host controller and interface are electrically ok.  Of couse that
doesn't rule out the possibility that the JMicron device has an internal
issue which is not known to the Linux developers and thus has no workaround
in the Linux kernel.  We'll see I guess.  Of course other operating systems
may work fine because the authors of their host controller driver may have
been told about the chip fault and workaround.

> Would it be useful to post similar diagnostic messages from my linux mint
> install? (as well as further testing on win7)

Let's start with the ffado-diag output and see what that shows up.

> Are there any ways to evaluate the IEEE1394 bus / host card without another
> device? (Audiofire Pre8 is my only firewire device)

Nothing immediately springs to mind.

Regards
  jonathan